Old Woman Archive

  • What’s to be done about texting and driving?

    What’s to be done about texting and driving?

    New Yorkers now have to live with the threat of a $150 fine for texting and driving. (Incidentally, I know a fool-proof way to avoid paying the fine: put your stupid phone away while behind the wheel.) But in the UK? They don't mess around with their punishments. The New York Times has a story today about a young woman who's now serving 21 months in prison for her role in car accident that left someone dead. What was her role? That's right, texting while driving.

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  • Happy Birthday, Devin

    Happy Birthday, Devin

    Right now Devin is probably doing Everclear shots and dancing the Macarena with an old woman in a pantsuit because it's his birthday! That's right, our own Devin Coldewey just turned 18 and he's legal, ladies. If you see him tonight buy him a Fuzzy Nipple on CrunchGear.

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  • Ever hate a gadget so much that you destroy it?

    Ever hate a gadget so much that you destroy it?

    You guys gotta hear this. There's a 78-year-old woman who, for whatever reason, hates the president so much that she has decided to sell her two TVs! (What's more impressive is that the woman even has a working TV post-digital transition.)

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  • Darn them Dukenko boys! Ukrainian hackers steal $415,000 from podunk sherriff

    Darn them Dukenko boys! Ukrainian hackers steal $415,000 from podunk sherriff

    Cyber criminals AKA teenagers who are just more organized than the IT staffs of their victims stole $415,000 from a sheriff’s department in Bullitt County, Kentucky. That’s right: Bullitt County. Kentucky. The hacker found out that their phishing expedition had installed a keystroke logging Trojan with remote control capabilities onto the police computers and then lucked [...]

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